93 file formats explained

JPG1992 Joint Photographic Experts Group The standard lossy photo format used by cameras, phones and almost every website. PNG1996 Portable Network Graphics A lossless format with full transparency, ideal for screenshots, logos and graphics. WEBP2010 WebP A modern format that gives smaller files than JPG and PNG, with transparency and animation. AVIF2019 AV1 Image File Format A next-generation format built on AV1 that beats WebP and JPG on file size. HEIC2015 High Efficiency Image Container The photo format iPhones use by default, built on HEVC compression. GIF1987 Graphics Interchange Format A classic 256-colour format best known for simple looping animations. BMP1986 Windows Bitmap An uncompressed Windows bitmap that stores every pixel without compression. TIFF1986 Tagged Image File Format A flexible high-quality format used in photography, scanning and print production. ICO1985 Windows Icon The icon container that holds several sizes of one image, used for Windows apps and website favicons. SVG2001 Scalable Vector Graphics An XML-based vector format that scales to any size without losing sharpness. JPEG1992 Joint Photographic Experts Group The full name of the JPG format: same lossy compression, longer file extension. TIF1986 Tagged Image File Format The three-letter extension for TIFF, with the same lossless print-quality image data. HEIF2015 High Efficiency Image File Format The container standard behind HEIC, with efficient compression for photos and sequences. JXL2021 JPEG XL A modern format designed to replace JPG and PNG, with lossless recompression of existing JPGs. JP22000 JPEG 2000 A wavelet-based format used in medical imaging, digital cinema and archives. TGA1984 Truevision Targa A simple raster format with alpha channel, long used in game development and video work. DDS1999 DirectDraw Surface A texture format for DirectX games that can store mipmaps and GPU-compressed data. PSD1990 Photoshop Document Adobe Photoshop's layered project file. EPS1987 Encapsulated PostScript A PostScript-based format for print graphics and logos. ICNS2001 Apple Icon Image The icon container used by macOS apps, with several sizes up to 1024x1024 in one file. EXR2003 OpenEXR A high-dynamic-range format with floating-point colour, standard in film and VFX. HDR1989 Radiance RGBE The Radiance high-dynamic-range format, widely used for environment maps and lighting. PPM1988 Portable Pixmap A very simple uncompressed colour image format from the Netpbm family. PGM1988 Portable Graymap The Netpbm grayscale format: one brightness value per pixel, uncompressed. PBM1988 Portable Bitmap The Netpbm black-and-white format that stores one bit per pixel. PNM1988 Portable Anymap The umbrella name for the Netpbm family covering PBM, PGM and PPM images.